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CLXXVIII. AGARICUS Jlipitatus, pilco convexo, fquamofo fubfufco, lamellis 

 congregam. albidis, petiolo tereti fufcefcente, baji crajjiufculo ; vclo et an- 



fiulo albido. Amiularius Bulliard, 377. 



CONGREGATED AGARIC. 



TAB. CXL. 



THE root produces numerous items, confifts of a misfhapen 

 lump, and is furnifhed with numerous fibres. 



The ftem is four or five inches high, round, Iargefl at the 

 bafe, tapering upwards, of a pale brown, changing darker with 

 age; the fubllance within is white, folid, and elaftic. 



The curtain is white, thick, downy, and elaftic ; arifing from 

 a thick, foft, downy annulus, which abides till the decay of the 

 plant. 



The pileus is convex, gently rolled in at the margin, where it 

 is frequently galhed or rent ; it is of a brownifh cinnamon colour, 

 darkeft in the middle, with little tufts or fcales of a darker 

 colour, which are mofl numerous near the fummit. 



Grows in woods but rare. The fpecimen here figured and 

 defcribed, I gathered in the Burks t near Halifax, in July, 1790- 





